Example sentences of "[vb base] we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suggest we review next year 's budget and make some radical changes . |
| 2 | ‘ I suggest we carry each other . ’ |
| 3 | Now I 'm going to help you with it and what I suggest we do this morning when I give you these sheets will you please write your name and today 's date at the top of the sheet and I put the date on the board , and then can you please resist the temptation to start , start writing over the rest of the sheet until I 've gone through it with you . |
| 4 | As you rightly say we ahve four eyars befoer the next general election . |
| 5 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 6 | Er so say we get fifty people applying , we will then use those application forms to decide how ma er sorry which ones we 're going to go with . |
| 7 | Almost , and as I say we do fourteen litre and ten litre engines . |
| 8 | Why it is , it 's very , very , very wrong , say we pay all year round for that , I 've paid for a year for my ticket |
| 9 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
| 10 | I suppose you 've come to tell me you want us to go straight back to Olbia ? ’ |
| 11 | I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly . |
| 12 | If you want us to answer any questions , perhaps you 'll er you 'll tell us. plant somewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ Unless you want us to use non-inflammable silk ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If they want us to service local communities , we must be accountable to them . |
| 15 | Want us to cover everyday conversation ! |
| 16 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 17 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |
| 18 | ‘ Virginia , if you want us to stay just friends , go now , ’ he muttered hoarsely , reaching out to circle her upper arms . |
| 19 | Imagine we unfold cuboid no 1 . |
| 20 | Whereas when we write we have to conform to fairly strict rules of grammar , when we speak we have more choice in the way we employ language . |
| 21 | I just hope we get faster ground , ’ Doumen said . |
| 22 | Let us contrast those achievements with Labour 's record in office . |
| 23 | Let us fulfil that purpose , not for own advantage , but out of our duty to the people of our country and the people of our world . |
| 24 | Let us assume that DHA 1 does that and its capital charge reduces from £2.2m to £2.0m . |
| 25 | First , let us assume fixed proportions in production . |
| 26 | Leaving aside the question of which came first , let us assume active interest on the part of the man , and a potential interest on the part of the woman . |
| 27 | Let us relate this statement to the example above . |
| 28 | Let us study three birds which are very different in anatomy and lifestyle . |
| 29 | Let us give special thought today to those people who have devoted their lives to helping the poor and needy in impoverished parts of the world . |
| 30 | For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) . |